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Can Voter Suppression Increase Electoral Bias?
Can Voter Suppression Increase Electoral Bias?
By Bernard Tamas, Associate Professor of Political Science, Valdosta State University
MIT Election Lab
Dec 18, 2020
The Challenges of Auditing Local Redistricting
The Challenges of Auditing Local Redistricting
This post was written by Brian Amos, an assistant professor at Wichita State University.
MIT Election Lab
Dec 7, 2020
Happy Election Day!
Happy Election Day!
As political scientists here at the MIT Election Lab, we are really social scientists. We work with many others to understand what’s…
MIT Election Lab
Nov 3, 2020
North Carolina: What’s Happening with Early Voting?
North Carolina: What’s Happening with Early Voting?
A State Spotlight from the Stanford-MIT Healthy Election Project
MIT Election Lab
Nov 3, 2020
What’s Happening with Mail-In Ballots in Wisconsin?
What’s Happening with Mail-In Ballots in Wisconsin?
A State Spotlight from the Stanford-MIT Healthy Election Project
MIT Election Lab
Nov 3, 2020
What’s Happening with Mail In Voting in Georgia?
What’s Happening with Mail In Voting in Georgia?
A State Spotlight from the Stanford-MIT Healthy Election Project
MIT Election Lab
Nov 3, 2020
Spotlight on Texas: Record Breaking Early Vote Turnout
Spotlight on Texas: Record Breaking Early Vote Turnout
Today’s post was written by Kevin DeLuca, a graduate student at the Harvard Kennedy School and researcher for the Stanford-MIT Healthy…
MIT Election Lab
Nov 3, 2020
What’s Happening with Pennsylvania’s Mail-in Ballots?
What’s Happening with Pennsylvania’s Mail-in Ballots?
A State Spotlight from the Stanford-MIT Healthy Election Project
MIT Election Lab
Oct 30, 2020
Talking Elections: Voter Education
Talking Elections: Voter Education
In Episode 3 of our video series Talking Elections, we wanted to take a look at voter education which is an important topic that doesn’t…
MIT Election Lab
Oct 27, 2020
Solving the Problem of Long Lines on Election Day
Solving the Problem of Long Lines on Election Day
What does queuing theory say about managing polling places amid COVID-19?
MIT Election Lab
Oct 19, 2020
Under the Hood of Election Science
Under the Hood of Election Science
Data from the Election Assistance Commission
MIT Election Lab
Oct 12, 2020
Exploring Voting Equipment and Inequality in the 2016 U.S. General Election (Part 2)
Exploring Voting Equipment and Inequality in the 2016 U.S. General Election (Part 2)
Using county-level residual voting rate and demographic data to see how voting equipment can shape voting equality
MIT Election Lab
Oct 5, 2020
How Can Researchers and Election Administrators Work Together?
How Can Researchers and Election Administrators Work Together?
MEDSL Founding Director Charles Stewart III interviewed Mara Suttmann-Lea of Connecticut College, Lia Merivaki of Mississippi State, and…
MIT Election Lab
Sep 28, 2020
Voting by Mail During a Global Pandemic
Voting by Mail During a Global Pandemic
America’s Electorate is Increasingly Polarized Along Partisan Lines About Voting by Mail During the COVID-19 Crisis
MIT Election Lab
Sep 21, 2020
What the Elections Performance Index can — and can’t — tell us about Vote-By-Mail
What the Elections Performance Index can — and can’t — tell us about Vote-By-Mail
Our post today was written by Pia Deshpande, a writer with the MIT Election Lab.
MIT Election Lab
Jul 31, 2020
Amid a Pandemic and Social Unrest, Turnout Holds Its Own in the Primaries.
Amid a Pandemic and Social Unrest, Turnout Holds Its Own in the Primaries.
What this Means for November
Charles Stewart
Jun 15, 2020
How was DC’s primary different this year?
How was DC’s primary different this year?
Police brutality, protests against police brutality, the pandemic, and curfews all shape this year’s election.
MIT Election Lab
Jun 12, 2020
Voting by Mail in the U.S.
Past, Present, and Future Advancements
MIT Election Lab
May 15, 2020
What do we know about vote-by-mail?
What do we know about vote-by-mail?
Lessons from Wisconsin, North Carolina, and beyond
MIT Election Lab
May 5, 2020
Concern about Coronavirus and Political Messaging: A First Look
Concern about Coronavirus and Political Messaging: A First Look
If COVID-19 is, at least for now, invisible to most Americans, what explains why some are concerned about it, while others are not?
MIT Election Lab
Mar 20, 2020
Introducing: State Election Landscapes
Introducing: State Election Landscapes
An in-depth look at election administration in 6 states
MIT Election Lab
Feb 27, 2020
Filling in the Gaps
Filling in the Gaps
Data Completeness and the EPI
MIT Election Lab
Dec 6, 2019
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